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January 4, 2006
Where Your Tax Money Goes
McQ at QandO has some interesting information on where the NEA spends its union dues: a raft of hard Left causes absorb millions of dollars. But what McQ does not go on to note is that these teachers are themselves paid out of tax dollars. In other words, you pay your property taxes to the school district; a portion of those taxes goes to teachers' salaries; a portion of those salaries (mandated, not given) goes to the NEA teachers' union as dues; and a large amount of that goes to support groups like "Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International, AIDS Walk Washington and dozens of other such advocacy groups".
Have I mentioned how much I hate the way that unions have worked out in reality? I'd kind of like to given Francis Porretto's idea a try: unions without special legal privileges.
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